Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

Along with his smaller donkey pal, he guards the museum’s exhibits and memorabilia.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.